Emilio Audissino
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Emilio Audissino

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Emilio Audissino is an Associate Professor at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is a film scholar and a film musicologist. He holds an M.A. in Film Studies from the University of Turin (IT), one PhD in History of Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Pisa (IT), and one PhD in Film Studies from the University of Southampton (UK). He spent research and study periods in Boston (USA), Paris (FR), and was Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). He has taught film history and analysis at the Universities of Genoa (IT), Southampton, West London (UK), UNINT Rome (IT), and Utrecht (NL). Dr Audissino’s areas of expertise are mainly Hollywood and Italian cinema, and his interests are formalist audiovisual analysis, screenwriting, film style and technique, comedy, horror, and film sound and music. He has published journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopaedia entries on the history and analysis of films, spanning from the silent era to contemporary cinema. He is the author of the monograph *John Williams's Film Music: 'Jaws', 'Star Wars', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style* (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014, 2nd ed. 2021), the first book-length study in English on the composer, and the editor of the collection of essays *John Williams. Music for Films, Television and the Concert Stage* (Brepols, 2018). His book *Film/Music Analysis. A Film Studies Approach* (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) concerns a method for audiovisual analysis that blends Neoformalism and Gestalt Psychology. He co-edited, with Emile Wennekes, the volume *Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack* (Brepols, 2019). Web Page: https://www.emilioaudissino.eu

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